Oskar Kokoschka Kokoschka was born in P–chlarn, a Danube town, on March 1, 1886. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts from 1905 to 1908. As an early exponent of the avant-garde expressionist movement, he began to paint psychologically penetrating portraits of Viennese physicians, architects, and artists. He taught art at the Dresden Academy from 1919 to 1924. During this time he painted The Power of Music (1919, Dresden Paintings Collection, Dresden). Many of them are views of …showed first 75 words of 493 total…

…showed last 75 words of 493 total…year, Kokoschka fled to England with Olda. Kokoschka sold and donated many of his works on behalf of humanitarian causes as well as launching a poster campaign in 1945. Every summer from 1953 to 1963, he taught at the Salzburg School of Seeing, where he presented his ideas of expression via the senses. Kokoschka and Olda settled finally in Switzerland, where he lived until his death in 1980. Most authors will tell prospective writers to “write what you know.”